Bonus pics.  A shot of the birthday basket my kids got me, with a close-up of the blossoms, AND I found that there is a tomato on the vine!

OK, last night I listened to the 4th and final disc of the Brit Box, which I posted on here.

Sleeper are an English rock band formed in London in 1993. The group had eight UK Top 40 hit singles and three UK Top 10 albums during the 1990s. Their music was also featured in the soundtrack of the pop cultural hit movie Trainspotting. The band split up in 1998 but reunited in 2017. Jon Stewart met Louise Wener at Manchester University in 1987 in a political philosophy class. They played in a number of bands at university, then after graduating they moved to London to seek gigs. Wener later wrote that “we sounded not unlike the Sundays, but as time went on our music became increasingly influenced by US bands such as Hole, Nirvana and, most especially, the Pixies”

Sleeper reformed in 2017 to play in four British cities in July and August as part of the Star Shaped Festival alongside other Britpop acts including Space, Dodgy and The Bluetones. They went on to headline an eleven-date tour of smaller venues in England in the spring of 2018. On May 1, 2018 Sleeper announced that they would be recording a new album for release in early 2019, and playing three UK concerts in November 2018. Lead single “Look at You Now” premiered on BBC Radio 6 Music on 4 December 2018, while presenter Steve Lamacq announced the title of the new album was The Modern Age.

“Sale of the Century” is from, “The It Girl” album. The It Girl is the second studio album by Sleeper, first released in May 1996. It was their most successful album, selling over 300,000 copies in the UK alone. The album was released internationally; the US version has a different track listing along with alternative photos in the linear booklet.

“Sale of the Century” was written by the band’s vocalist/guitarist Louise Wener and drummer Andy Maclure. In Europe, “Sale of the Century” was the second single to be released from, The It Girl and became the group’s first top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart.

Louise Wener said of the protagonist of “Sale of the Century”: “Love makes you a little insane, yet rationality always kicks in. Dreamy persistence fascinates me, but so does powerlessness, ruined lives, and people who can’t or don’t get what they want.”

We step through London
The streets holding on to us
We’ll stand where the river bends
I hope we fall in

So this time maybe
Lets take a photograph
We’ll burn all the negatives
I hope we fall in

Its never gonna be this good so just climb in
How long till reason makes us small again?
And it feels just like we just got started

Its still you
Taking me under
We turn to be scared
Then decide that we don’t care
Wear ourselves out on the way down

Its still you
And the moment you left me you said I was cheap
You were the sale of the century
Grease ourselves up on the way down

And now I touch you
I don’t know where you begin
Sometimes you’re a piece of me
I hope we fall in

Its never gonna be this good so just climb in
How long till reason makes us small again
It feels just like we just got started

Its still you
Taking me under
We turn to be scared
Then decide that we don’t care
Wear ourselves out on the way down

Its still you
And the moment you left me you said I was cheap
You were the sale of the century
Grease ourselves up on the way down

Its been too long, so it could just be something we ate

And we’ll be______ we’ll crunch on the people we hate
It feels just like we just got started..

Its still you
Taking me under
We turn to be scared
Then decide that we don’t care
Wear ourselves out on the way down

Its still you
And the moment you left me you said I was cheap
You were the sale of the century
Grease ourselves up on the way down

Songwriters: Louise Wener/Andrew Maclure